A sports fan might have been puzzled, if not amazed, if someone told him at the dawn of the 21st century, just 15 years ago, that: Seven pro sports the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, tennis, soccer and golf three major conferences (the Big 10,...

Apology not accepted. Not even close.
Mark Cuban apparently not only thought DeAndre Jordan's Twitter regrets over failing to inform the Dallas Mavericks owner about his backing out of a commitment to his team were insincere, he also questioned their...

The Clippers will participate in summer league in Orlando, Fla., at Amway Center from July 4-10.
The games will be televised on NBA TV, and fans can also watch games live on NBA.com and on the NBA Game Time app.
This is the first time the Clippers...

There's something notably missing from this year's NBA Finals — a villain.
LeBron James made nice with the people of Cleveland, casually flicking away four years of ill will from his hometown team and scads of NBA followers who detested the way he...

The Houston Rockets agreed to a three-year contract extension with head coach Kevin McHale on Wednesday.
ESPN.com reported that the deal is fully guaranteed and valued in excess of $12 million.
McHale, 57, is in his fourth season with the Rockets, who...

Nick Young is the master of self-appointed nicknames, maker of off-the-cuff monikers unlike anyone since Shaquille O'Neal left the business.
But there's one person that refuses to call him "Swaggy P." Or, his latest incarnation,...

Flip Saunders coached a 19-year-old rookie forward named Kevin Garnett with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995-96, and that experience helped him devise a plan for the two teenagers on his current team.
In June, Minnesota drafted 19-year-old Kansas...

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Garnett said he is interested in owning the Minnesota Timberwolves some day, Yahoo Sports reported.
“I want to buy the Timberwolves. Put a group together and perhaps some day try to buy the team. That's what I want,” Garnett...

New media rights deals with Turner and ESPN could bring the NBA as much as a 186 percent revenue increase over its existing broadcasting rights deal, which runs through 2015-16.
"I'm sure both sides will be studying this new deal and seeking to...

Amid widespread conjecture about the future of Carmelo Anthony and the possibility of the New York Knicks forward winding up as a teammate of LeBron James, an Eastern Conference executive told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he would not be...

—Ravens running back Ray Rice rejected a plea offer Thursday that would spare him jail time on charges that he assaulted his then-fiancee, and instead asked the court to put him in a program under which he could eventually clear his record. With...